{"id":42,"date":"2025-06-25T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalemyouthchorus.org\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:37:31","slug":"if-youre-tired-angry-or-numb-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusalemyouthchorus.org\/blog\/if-youre-tired-angry-or-numb-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"If you’re tired, angry, or numb – read this."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 25, 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear JYC Global Family,<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, at this time of year, we would be preparing our end-of-year concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these past weeks, as rockets rained over the region, our singers faced daily curfews, closures, and air raid sirens. With safety at risk, we put the concert on hold and shifted our twice-weekly rehearsals online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the uncertainty and fear\u2014and not knowing if the concert could happen at all\u2014something deeply powerful emerged…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This past Monday, our singers gathered\u2014across screens, borders, and realities\u2014for a virtual rehearsal that became one of our most extraordinary moments of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though we couldn\u2019t be together in person, we were united in purpose\u2014rooted in resilience, lifted by song, and held in the presence of someone whose music has long steadied us: vocal activist, composer, and musical-spiritual leader Melanie DeMore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melanie is the composer of “Standing Stone”\u2014a song we teach each year on retreat before the hard conversations begin, a song that anchors us in connection that we call on in times of need. This was one of those times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hear JYC sing ” Standing Stone ” together on a retreat.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“I will be your standing stone, I will stand by you.”<\/mark><\/strong>

Melanie shared the meaning behind each of the three harmony lines of Standing Stone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n